delve

MY BELOVED MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH,--So eager am I to do something that will please and divert you in return for your care, for your ceaseless efforts on my behalf--in short, for your love for me-- that I have decided to beguile a leisure hour for you by delving into my locker, and extracting thence the manuscript which I send you herewith.

Let him take off his plates and delve himself, if delving must be done."

The fashion of delving out fulfillments of prophecy where that prophecy consists of mere "ifs," trenches upon the absurd.

And this garden, where the black mould always clings to my spade, as if I were a sexton delving in a graveyard!

So Roger Chillingworth -- the man of skill, the kind and friendly physician -- strove to go deep into his patient's bosom, delving among his principles, prying into his recollections, and probing everything with a cautious touch, like a treasure-seeker in a dark cavern.

But as Tarzan of the Apes sat one day in the cabin of his father delving into the mysteries of a new book, the ancient security of his jungle was broken forever.

How hard that I must go on, delving and delving, day in and day out, merely to make a morsel of bread, when one lucky stroke of a spade might enable me to ride in my carriage for the rest of my life!"

Modification methods include clay spreading, delving and/or spading (Davenport et al.

Mary delves into family's past GREAT British Bake Off star Mary Berry and comic Billy Connolly are among the familiar faces who will be delving back into their family history for a new series of BBC1's Who Do You Think You Are?.

He's examining the history of the UK's rail network, delving right back to its beginnings as a primitive system of track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century, right through to the present day.While rapid industrial growth during the 19th century paved the way for entrepreneurs and inventors to develop the steam train, George Stephenson's Liverpool and Manchester Railway became the model for future inter-city travel.

Summary: Films were rolled up for Total Ten, a Bollywood movie delving in the psyche of terrorists who attacked showbiz capital Mumbai on November 26.